Comments on: Winter is Icumen In http://bokane.org/2009/11/08/winter-is-icumen-in/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed disoriented in the orient Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:25:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Brendan O'Kane http://bokane.org/2009/11/08/winter-is-icumen-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1910 Brendan O'Kane Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:10:52 +0000 http://bokane.org/?p=278#comment-1910 I remain convinced that Pound hit upon truths in e.g. his translation of the Analects that no other sinologist or translator has yet unearthed. For instance, did you know that Confucius hated the Jews? I remain convinced that Pound hit upon truths in e.g. his translation of the Analects that no other sinologist or translator has yet unearthed. For instance, did you know that Confucius hated the Jews?

]]> By: EBShanghai http://bokane.org/2009/11/08/winter-is-icumen-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1909 EBShanghai Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:07:24 +0000 http://bokane.org/?p=278#comment-1909 As for Pound being a Sinologist, I remember that most of what he produced was considered philologically indefensible nonsense by my professors, old-school Berkeley guys. And the anti-semitism. Yuck. As for Pound being a Sinologist, I remember that most of what he produced was considered philologically indefensible nonsense by my professors, old-school Berkeley guys. And the anti-semitism. Yuck.

]]> By: richard http://bokane.org/2009/11/08/winter-is-icumen-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1899 richard Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:43:59 +0000 http://bokane.org/?p=278#comment-1899 Thanks for the laugh with that Bill Knot ditty. Priceless. Thanks for the laugh with that Bill Knot ditty. Priceless.

]]> By: Brendan O'Kane http://bokane.org/2009/11/08/winter-is-icumen-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1877 Brendan O'Kane Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:07:49 +0000 http://bokane.org/?p=278#comment-1877 @FOARP: I quote Bill Knott:<blockquote>POEM well alright I grant you he was a fascist ahem antisemitism the er war and all I'm not defending them but at least you've got to admit at least he made the quatrains run on time</blockquote> And 'Sumer is icumen in' was more of a round than a poem, no? @FOARP: I quote Bill Knott:
POEM

well alright
I grant you
he was a fascist
ahem antisemitism the
er war and all
I’m not defending them
but at least
you’ve got to admit
at least he
made the quatrains run on time

And ‘Sumer is icumen in’ was more of a round than a poem, no?

]]> By: FOARP http://bokane.org/2009/11/08/winter-is-icumen-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1876 FOARP Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:59:48 +0000 http://bokane.org/?p=278#comment-1876 Pound - traitor, fascist, and mad as a march-hare to boot. Don't know why he felt he had to burn the first poem in the English language like this, but that's just another one of those unanswerable 'whys' about the man. Pound – traitor, fascist, and mad as a march-hare to boot. Don’t know why he felt he had to burn the first poem in the English language like this, but that’s just another one of those unanswerable ‘whys’ about the man.

]]> By: Beijing Sounds http://bokane.org/2009/11/08/winter-is-icumen-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1870 Beijing Sounds Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:57:35 +0000 http://bokane.org/?p=278#comment-1870 protesteth, such a post, such a period; nuanqi arrives, reign of cold ends -- yet, before! not yet! such a temperature! interval of bliss! this prelude to the aria of deep winter boiler amokness, desiccating lungs, turning nostrils to leather, forcing open windows... savor the transition. protesteth, such a post, such a period; nuanqi arrives, reign of cold ends — yet, before! not yet! such a temperature! interval of bliss! this prelude to the aria of deep winter boiler amokness, desiccating lungs, turning nostrils to leather, forcing open windows… savor the transition.

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